[Andy-H]

Hi Simon,
Great to see you at the meeting and thanks for your constructive input.
Ancient woodland and an archaeological site, I’m jealous 🙂
I hope to catch up with you at one of our events in 2025.
Regards,
Andy

[Andy-H]

Hi Helen,
Welcome; sounds like a fantastic site. It’s very wise to watch the space for a while, at least one whole year maybe more, before diving in. There’s a lot of knowledge and experience in the group so I’m sure you’ll get some useful support.

[Andy-H]

A warm welcome to the group Barbara, and thanks for introducing yourself and the horses.

The forum isn’t being used as much as we would like yet but we will be adding a ‘members’ services’ part to the website and will add information about what you do there. We will also circulate the information via our news updates emailed to the members; I am sure there will be interest.

Andy

[Andy-H]

Wow Tammy! That looks good. Yes, we left the grass in May, but the result was nothing as impressive as yours 🙂
There are some sections we won’t be cutting till end of July/August.

[Andy-H]

Hi Kate, no, just pale leaves 🙂

[Andy-H]

Hi Kate – I’m looking in to this; I suspect we may need to use Google Maps or similar.

[Andy-H]

Sorry Kate; I missed your proposal.

I agree, it would be good to get a map of some kind that at least showed the rough area of members’ projects/habitats.

I’ll look into it.

Regards,

Andy

[Andy-H]

They finally turned up and produced vast amounts of spawn.

I am wondering if they delayed spawning because of the heavy rain causing flood conditions. I haven’t heard it mentioned before, but it could be a strategy to prevent spawn being washed away to less suitable areas.

[Andy-H]

Hi Kate,

I assume you are wanting to use electric/battery power as part of your zero-carbon commitment? In my experience, it really depends how tough the job is as to whether or not a cordless strimmer will do the job. My cordless tools are Makita (only because I already had some batteries from cordless drills etc.) and, although they are great for the lighter jobs, they are not quite up to the tough stuff. Our cordless strimmer is quite capable of doing just that, strimming grass, but struggles with tussocky stuff. There are heavier models described as cordless bush cutters but, by the time you add batteries, they come in at well over £400.

It may be worth phoning any tool-hire companies in your area to see if they can offer anything but not many are offering cordless garden tools yet. Or try and borrow something in the short term to prevent you having to make a rushed purchase decision.

If we were closer I’d offer for you to try our ‘strimmer’ but getting over to Llanidloes would create a larger carbon footprint than hiring a petrol bushcutter for an afternoon 🙂

[Andy-H]

Welcome Joe. It will take a while before we get much conversation going but it will build in time 🙂

[Andy-H]

Hi Tammy, welcome to the forum 🙂

I hope we get some good discussions going on here over time!

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